The amount of plastic on our oceans has been steadily rising for a great number of years. Now, evidence suggests that the earth may be entering into an age of plastic - an age that may affect the earth more badly than we can imagine. Research suggests that durable plastics will not only affect life now, but they also will likely form fossils that persist into the Earth's far future. As Professor Zalasiewicz, Professor of Palaeobiology from the University of Leicester’s Department of Geology, stated, “Plastics will continue to be input into the sedimentary cycle over coming millennia as temporary stores – landfill sites – are eroded. Plastics already enable fine time resolution within Anthropocene deposits via the development of their different types and via the artefacts, known as ‘technofossils’, they are moulded into, and many of these may have long-term preservation potential when buried in strata." It goes without saying that the Earth, especially its oceans, could potentially become buried in plastics. Islands of plastics grow gradually larger among the open seas and show little sign of slowing down. Plastic pollutes water, fish, and the environment, and soon - or even in the future, since it is now known that plastics care likely able to be fossilized -it is likely that it will come to poison mankind itself.
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